By PTI
DEHRADUN: A gathering between Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and former chief of opposition within the state Assembly Pritam Singh has triggered the hypothesis of the Congress chief switching his allegiance to the ruling BJP within the close to future.
The assembly that befell on the chief minister’s residence late on Sunday evening assumed significance because it got here shut on the heels of the Congress revamping its state unit wherein Singh, a five-time MLA from Chakrata, was apparently sidelined by the occasion management.
However, when contacted, Singh dismissed the hypothesis.
Singh, who has held key positions like that of the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president from 2017 to 2021 and the chief of opposition within the Assembly after the demise of Indira Hridayesh final yr, has not been assigned any main organisational accountability within the newest revamp of the occasion’s state unit.
Karan Mahra, who is alleged to be near former chief minister and Singh’s bete noire Harish Rawat, has been made the PCC chief, senior occasion chief and Bajpur MLA Yashpal Arya has been appointed because the chief of opposition and Bhuwan Chandra Kapri, who defeated Dhami within the recently-held state Assembly polls from Khatima, is the deputy chief of opposition.
Arya has held the posts of PCC president previously. He can also be a former speaker of the Assembly.
The Uttarakhand Congress has lengthy been divided into two factions — one led by Rawat and the opposite by Singh.
As the Congress seems to be for components that will have led to its failure to wrest energy from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttarakhand, factionalism has emerged as a potential cause why its efficiency fell far in need of the expectations.
Congress’s ballot observers Avinash Pandey and Devender Yadav ready a report lately, attributing the occasion’s ballot debacle in Uttarakhand to variations amongst its state leaders.
Singh expressed his harm on being accused of factionalism within the report, however refused to say something on his assembly with the chief minister.
